rhythmic

Of or relating to rhythm.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to rhythm.
    • The Beshtian School, faithful to this concept of song, was characterized primarily by happy-sounding and rhythmic melodies. - 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page...
  2. Characterized by rhythm.
  3. Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
  4. With regular, repetitive motion or sound.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew- Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós) English rhythmic From Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós), from ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”) + -ικός (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives), equivalent to rhythm + -ic.

Forms

more rhythmic most rhythmic rythmic rhythmick

Derived

arhythmic arrhythmic autorhythmic biorhythmic birhythmic counterrhythmic dysrhythmic eurhythmic extrarhythmic heterorhythmic homorhythmic idiorrhythmic irrhythmic isorhythmic monorhythmic nonrhythmic panrhythmic polyrhythmic rhythmical rhythmic contemporary rhythmic gesture rhythmic gymnast rhythmic gymnastics rhythmicity